About this collection

Tony Cheetham has been an important leader in the materials chemistry community for many years now. On the occasion of his 70th birthday we honour his significant contribution to science – in this web collection we bring together more than 120 papers that have been authored or co-authored by Tony and published in the journals of the Royal Society of Chemistry. These papers cover a huge range of topics within the fields of materials and inorganic chemistry. The sheer breadth of content gives a good idea of the innovative thinking and forward-looking approach to research that has marked Tony’s career since he began his research as a DPhil student at the University of Oxford in the late 1960s.

After a period of postdoctoral research at Harwell, Tony took up a lecturer position in Oxford. In 1992, Tony took up the directorship of the new Materials Research Laboratory at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), which he led for 12 years. He became Director of the newly created International Center for Materials Research at UCSB in 2004, before moving to Cambridge in 2007 to become the Goldsmiths’ Professor of Materials Science. He has held several other positions during his career, including the Chief Scientific Advisor for Unilever.

Tony has won many prizes over the course of his career and is an elected Fellow of several international academies. He is currently the Treasurer and Vice-President of the Royal Society in London.

His scientific excellence is matched only by the outstanding mentorship he has provided for the numerous students, postdoctoral researchers and colleagues he has worked with over the years. The impact that Tony has had on the chemistry landscape is phenomenal.

We hope that you will join us in (re)reading his prolific scientific output in this web collection of his RSC publications.